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  • CULTURE & SOCIETY, CURRENT

Budapest Fireworks Amaze Spectators Once Again Despite One Hour Delay

Since some data indicated that a storm was inbound, a task force gathered to assess whether or not the fireworks show could be safely held. Albeit with an hour delay, it was eventually allowed to move forward, with over 45,000…
  • Márton Losonczi
  • ‎ —‎ 21.08.2024
  • CULTURE & SOCIETY

European Film Academy Recognizes Pelikan Blue for Award Nomination

The European Film Academy honours the most significant works of European cinema, with the prestigious European Film Awards being presented in Berlin every odd-numbered year and in another European city every even-numbered year. From the recently announced selection, Academy members…
  • Ádám Bráder
  • ‎ —‎ 21.08.2024
  • CULTURE & SOCIETY, CURRENT

Hungarians Prioritize Housing Over Consumption

The Hungarian economy could grow by 2 per cent this year, a downward revision from the 4 per cent forecast at the end of last year. This adjustment is attributed to the population’s caution in spending, which is only gradually…
  • Joakim Scheffer
  • ‎ —‎ 21.08.2024
  • CULTURE & SOCIETY

Online Theatre Festival Reaches Across Hungary’s Borders

Hungarian theatres from within the country and beyond its borders, as well as independent troupes were invited to submit their performances for the festival, which will also feature live, freely accessible online roundtables….
  • Ádám Bráder
  • ‎ —‎ 21.08.2024
  • CULTURE & SOCIETY

The End of the One-Party System in America: The Election of 1824

In 1824 Andrew Jackson received both the most popular votes and the most electoral votes in the presidential election. However, since he failed to win a majority of the latter, the decision went to Congress. There, his nemesis, House Speaker…
  • Márton Losonczi
  • ‎ —‎ 21.08.2024
Portrayal of St Stephen (Stephen I of Hungary) on the coronation pall (detail, 11th century)
  • CULTURE & SOCIETY

Saint Stephen School in the Southern Hemisphere

‘Father Thomas rises at six each morning and sounds the bronze bell of his church. He celebrates mass in the Bahasa Indonesia language in the Paroki Santa Perawan Maria Yang Diangkat Ke Surga, that is, the Parish Church of the…
  • János Kubassek
  • ‎ —‎ 20.08.2024
Vice Regent, Air Force First Lieutenant István Horthy before takeoff (unknown author, before 1942)
  • CULTURE & SOCIETY

The Tragic Death of István Horthy

István Horthy, the son of Miklós Horthy, lost his life in a plane crash on the Russian front barely six months after he was elected Vice Regent of Hungary….
  • Artúr Köő
  • ‎ —‎ 20.08.2024
King Saint Stephen's Holy Right, Budapest's most cherished relic
  • CULTURE & SOCIETY

The Many Faces of King Saint Stephen, the Founder of Our State

The foundation of the Hungarian State by King Stephen I created unprecedented stability in the Carpathian Basin, setting the region on the path of Western-style modernization and development….
  • László Veszprémy
  • ‎ —‎ 20.08.2024
Mihály Munkácsy, Study on Maternal Instinct, The Nurse (1885). Private collection
  • CULTURE & SOCIETY

Conservative Attempts to Boost Fertility Rates in Poland

‘By initiating crucial policy frameworks and achieving tangible successes in alleviating child poverty, the [Polish] government set a precedent for future administrations to consider holistic strategies that would extend beyond immediate demographic calculation, fostering instead a resilient and inclusive society…
  • Liliana Śmiech
  • ‎ —‎ 19.08.2024
  • CULTURE & SOCIETY, PHILOSOPHY

Living Conservatism — Visiting ‘Scrutopia’

‘The programme took place in the idyllic settings of the Royal Agricultural University in the Cotswolds and Sundey Hill Farm, where Sir Roger lived and worked for three decades. The week’s agenda was filled with intellectually stimulating lectures, vibrant discussions,…
  • Benedek Tőczik
  • ‎ —‎ 19.08.2024
Prester John of the Indies. Close-up from a portolan chart. Shelfmark: MS. Douce 391. (by unknown author, late 16th century)
  • CULTURE & SOCIETY

The Legend of Prester John

‘This priest-king, of reputable phenomenal wealth and power, who was thought to reign somewhere in the East, galvanized monarchs and explorers throughout the High and Late Middle Ages up to the early Modern period just as the mythical city of…
  • Fr. Mario Alexis Portella
  • ‎ —‎ 18.08.2024
Gen Z illustration (Pixabay)
  • CULTURE & SOCIETY

The Tragedy of Gen Z’s Post-Romantic Self

‘To invite Gen Z to take responsibility over their own lives, is to be able to transcend our own shadow. Providing Gen Z with a meaningful life means living one ourselves. To invest in family and community. To have transcendence…
  • Daniel de Liever
  • ‎ —‎ 17.08.2024
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CULTURE & SOCIETY

Post-war Retribution or Miscarriage of Justice? – People’s Tribunals in Hungary, 1945–1949
CULTURE & SOCIETY

Post-war Retribution or Miscarriage of Justice? – People’s Tribunals in Hungary, 1945–1949

Should we believe the court documents of a case where the prosecuted people did not deny their crimes at all, but where falsified documents have also been used? Can a trial be labelled only “partially corrupt”? Doesn’t this destroys faith in the entire process and in the People’s Tribunal justice?

László Bernát Veszprémy
02.06.2022
Statistics on Education in Hungary
CULTURE & SOCIETY

Statistics on Education in Hungary

Hungarian universities are increasingly successful in attracting more and more international students. The number of international students studying in Hungarian higher education has been increasing steadily over the last couple of years.

Lili Zemplényi
01.06.2022
Can We Trust Communist Documents? – The Case of the People’s Tribunals
CULTURE & SOCIETY

Can We Trust Communist Documents? – The Case of the People’s Tribunals

Find out more about the story that highlighted the unreliable nature of People’s Court documents and the necessity of judging each case according to the peculiarities of the story in question. 

László Bernát Veszprémy
01.06.2022
Soil, Water and Air: The Health of Hungarian Nature
CULTURE & SOCIETY

Soil, Water and Air: The Health of Hungarian Nature

In Hungary, emissions decreased by 32 per cent by 2018 compared to the 1990 levels, which is more favourable than the EU average.

Lili Zemplényi
31.05.2022
New World-Class Building of the Museum of Ethnography Opens in Budapest
CULTURE & SOCIETY

New World-Class Building of the Museum of Ethnography Opens in Budapest

The Hungarian Museum of Ethnography moves to a building custom-designed for it for the first time in its one-hundred-and-fifty-year history. The new building in the Hungarian capital is one of the top products of contemporary architecture.

Gellért Rajcsányi
31.05.2022
Review of László Bernát Veszprémy’s 1921: History of the Consolidation of the Horthy Regime
CULTURE & SOCIETY

Review of László Bernát Veszprémy’s 1921: History of the Consolidation of the Horthy Regime

Written in elegant expository prose, László Bernát Veszprémy’s book chronicles the main political episodes of one of Hungary’s watershed moments: the year 1921.

Gábor Csepregi
25.05.2022
Observing the International Day of Families: Family Policy in Hungary
CULTURE & SOCIETY

Observing the International Day of Families: Family Policy in Hungary

The family policy managed to stop the decline in fertility rates, which characterized Hungary since the 1980s. The last time in Hungarian history, when married couples had more than two children on average was in 1979, while fertility rate in Hungary was permanently above 2 only in the 1950s.

Lili Zemplényi
16.05.2022
The Roma Minority in Hungary
CULTURE & SOCIETY

The Roma Minority in Hungary

The social dynamics set into  motion under state socialism continues to have a lingering negative impact even today. Around 55 per cent of the Hungarian Roma live in villages or towns with a population of less than 50 thousand people.

Lili Zemplényi
03.05.2022
The Return of Hungary’s Holy Crown
CULTURE & SOCIETY

The Return of Hungary’s Holy Crown

Representing several Hungarian American associations, Adelbert Balunek explained the significance of the Holy Crown, saying that it represented ‘1,000 years of Christian, independent, sovereign rule in Hungary.’

Kelli Buzzard
30.04.2022
Between Hell and Paradise: Hieronymus Bosch Arrives in Budapest
CULTURE & SOCIETY

Between Hell and Paradise: Hieronymus Bosch Arrives in Budapest

The Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest presents a new, exciting exhibition of the enigmatic works of the renowned Dutch painter of the late Middle Ages. This is one the most significant Bosch exhibitions worldwide in the last fifty years.

Gellért Rajcsányi
29.04.2022
The Medina Charter and the Islamic Assertion of Democracy
CULTURE & SOCIETY

The Medina Charter and the Islamic Assertion of Democracy

In Islam, society is ordained to be passive and socially underdeveloped, because the sharia-based tenets, whether officially incorporated or not within a modern-day constitution of a country, prevail.

Fr. Mario Alexis Portella
26.04.2022
1956: A National Revolution
CULTURE & SOCIETY

1956: A National Revolution

Carl von Clausewitz advised that “According to our idea of a people’s war, it should, like a kind of nebulous vapoury essence, never condense
into a solid body; […]. Still, however, on the other hand, it is necessary that this mist should collect at some points into denser masses, and form threatening clouds from which now and again a formidable flash of lightning may burst forth.

Márton Békés
23.04.2022
The Story of the Aranybulla [the Golden Bull] — 800 Years of Hungarian Constitutionality
CULTURE & SOCIETY

The Story of the Aranybulla [the Golden Bull] — 800 Years of Hungarian Constitutionality

The Hungarian Golden Bull, similarly to corresponding Western regulations at the time, provided a basis for a very early version of democracy and constitutionality.

Gellért Rajcsányi
22.04.2022
Transition and Privatization in Hungary
CULTURE & SOCIETY

Transition and Privatization in Hungary

The privatization policy of the 1990s aimed to make the sitting tenants owners of their rented flats, by offering 70–90 per cent discounts on the price of the houses and flats.

Lili Zemplényi
21.04.2022
A Return of the 1930s?
CULTURE & SOCIETY

A Return of the 1930s?

How was it possible for the situation of Jews in the Western world to deteriorate to such an extent that one Jewish media outlet senses a return to the anti-Semitism of the 1930s? And what has been the reaction of the international left?

László Bernát Veszprémy
18.04.2022
Béla Hamvas, a Hungarian Conservative
CULTURE & SOCIETY

Béla Hamvas, a Hungarian Conservative

His heritage is a specific phenomenon in our culture because we have only a few metaphysical-spiritual authors who wrote in the horizon of timelessness and universality.

Mária Varga
14.04.2022
Hungarian Poetry Day
CULTURE & SOCIETY

Hungarian Poetry Day

Hungarians celebrate the National Poetry Day on 11 April; the birthday of the notable poet, Attila József.

Lili Zemplényi
11.04.2022
Trust and Post-communist Transition
CULTURE & SOCIETY

Trust and Post-communist Transition

While generally speaking Western Europe is characterized by high levels of trust, Central Eastern European societies, due to the legacy of Communism, have lower trust levels, which hinders their economic and political prospects and development. 

Lili Zemplényi
05.04.2022
Mass Immigration vs Modern Society
CULTURE & SOCIETY

Mass Immigration vs Modern Society

The most important measure of the success of an immigration policy is whether the newcomers and their children come to fully identify
with their new country.

Mark Krikorian
02.04.2022
‘The Good Lord Loves Us Hungarians Especially’
CULTURE & SOCIETY

‘The Good Lord Loves Us Hungarians Especially’

An interview from our third issue in memory of Father Attila Farkas who has passed away today.

András Jancsó
28.03.2022
The Day of Polish-Hungarian Friendship
CULTURE & SOCIETY

The Day of Polish-Hungarian Friendship

To commemorate the day this article reviews all the major historic events when Hungarian-Polish friendship revealed itself. 

Lili Zemplényi
24.03.2022
The Struggles of Men of a More Sophisticated Age
CULTURE & SOCIETY

The Struggles of Men of a More Sophisticated Age

In its entirety, Scitovszky’s memoirs are a compelling and eloquent retelling of many of the obscure events at and after Trianon, written by a man of a sophisticated age, hardened by insurmountable challenges and driven by a sense
of duty and responsibility.

Tamás Orbán
22.03.2022
Handbook for the Decline of the West
CULTURE & SOCIETY

Handbook for the Decline of the West

What can the average person do when they experience the decline of every civilization as an inevitable fate, ‘an irrevocable end, which, driven by inner necessity, comes again and again’?

Barnabás Kurucz
21.03.2022
15 March 1848 and 4 July 1776: Reminders of Hungarian and American Desires for Independence
CULTURE & SOCIETY

15 March 1848 and 4 July 1776: Reminders of Hungarian and American Desires for Independence

There are two peoples, the Americans and the Hungarians, who strove for some of that nobility and righteousness, and thus can be examples for those striving for the same in the present. 

Tate Sanders
18.03.2022
Commemorating the 1848–1849 Hungarian Revolution and Freedom Fight
CULTURE & SOCIETY

Commemorating the 1848–1849 Hungarian Revolution and Freedom Fight

The 1848-49 Revolution and Freedom Fight fundamentally changed the course of Hungarian history, and it remains the core of Hungarian national identity to this day. 

Lili Zemplényi
15.03.2022
House of Music, Hungary: A New Architectural Wonder Is Born in Budapest
CULTURE & SOCIETY

House of Music, Hungary: A New Architectural Wonder Is Born in Budapest

‘Complex simplicity’, was the catch-phrase picked by a critic to sum up the work of the Japanese architect, and this complex simplicity is indeed manifested in the House of Music, Hungary.  

Gellért Rajcsányi
09.03.2022
Transition, Happiness and Life Satisfaction in Hungary
CULTURE & SOCIETY

Transition, Happiness and Life Satisfaction in Hungary

Even though by the late 1990s Hungary’s economic performance had recovered to its pre-transition levels, unhappiness persisted in the region – giving rise to the question: why?

Lili Zemplényi
08.03.2022
A Review of Zoltán Frenyó’s Conservative Portraits
CULTURE & SOCIETY

A Review of Zoltán Frenyó’s Conservative Portraits

The editor’s basic thesis is the irreconcilable opposition between conservative and liberal ideas, in contrast to the Western European trend that conservatism can be liberal.

Benjamin Kurucz
07.03.2022
Count Lajos Batthyány, the Spiritual Father of Our Institution
CULTURE & SOCIETY

Count Lajos Batthyány, the Spiritual Father of Our Institution

Count Lajos Batthyány, the first Prime Minister of Hungary, is the spiritual father of our institution. Read more to find out about the sacrifices he made for the homeland.

Lili Zemplényi
06.03.2022
Spy and Report – How Collaboration Compromised Societies
CULTURE & SOCIETY

Spy and Report – How Collaboration Compromised Societies

Lacking accountability, secret policing under communism compromised Central European societies. The dark past of collaboration with communism still overshadows regional political culture. 

Lili Zemplényi
27.02.2022
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